Author's note: I'm ill!! Could this be because the curses from Anna and
Sesshoumaru? I'll try to write more quickly, or you'll kill me for sure
(I'd kill myself if chapters will end like they'll end without a sequel if
not after a week.)! Read and review!!
CHAPTER 13 WHY I AM HERE Rin gave a glance to Anna's movements with a sad face. Her Anna-nee-chan was near to go away. The youkai girl was controlling she had not forgot anything. Rin felt a grip over his heart. She didn't know what could be the thing that was pushing Anna away from her. She didn't even believe it, when Anna, that morning, had told to her she would try to return at home. Rin, with a big smile, had asked when she was thinking to return. She knew that, like Sesshoumaru-sama, Anna could run very fast, so, wherever was Anna-nee-chan's home, she would be surely near her soon. But Anna had sighed, a sigh she didn't like very much, than she told to her of the place she came from. A place so far she didn't imagine. "If I'll be able to return, I don't think it could be easy to return in this world, Rin-chan.- Anna had said- I would bring you with me, but I don't think it's right to constrict you in a strange world like that.. Please, forgive me, but it's really time. I have to go." Rin had cried, had pried her; Anna was irremovable, but not dry and she had calm her patiently. Now she had put in a bag the essential for the trip. In a half of an hour she'd left the Palace. Rin gave a look to Misao and Rika, sit in a corner with sad faces. Why not even the adults tried to stop her?! It was so beautiful, the day before! Rin was so happy, seeing Anna-nee-chan and Sesshoumaru-sama side by side, she believed her dreams could become true! But that night something was happened. Rin could feel it inside. She didn't remember much, she knew only that Sesshoumaru-sama was in fight with that youkai with kawaii ears that was no similar to him. Anna and Kagome cried.than she had fainted. Since they were returned Anna's eyes were strange. They seemed.empty. Jaken didn't want to tell her anything, but Rin was thinking he didn't know, as she didn't, what was happened. "No-one.does no-one help Rin to stop her?" she thought, closing her eyes and clutching her fists. "Sesshoumaru-sama!" Rin raised on her feet and run outside the room. Anna followed her with her eyes. "Please, forgive me, Rin-chan." she whispered. Rin run madly through the corridors, trying to not slide, than entered into Sesshoumaru's rooms. "Sesshoumaru-sama!- she cried, seeing him in contemplation of the garden outside the window- Sesshoumaru -sama, stop Anna-nee-chan!" Sesshoumaru lowered his eyes over the upset child, who looked at him with imploring eyes. He caressed lightly her hair. Sesshoumaru knew that his words could not stop Anna. He couldn't say it to the child, it was pretty difficulty to absorb this fact in his mind for itself. He had had a single chance to ask her to remain, and he had lost it. Yeah, because he should had to ASK. Maybe, APOLOGIZE. Things inconceivable for him. So, when she had had voice to his worst thoughts, telling she had decided to go away, everything was exited from his mouth was: "Do what you want." And she was doing what she wanted, no doubt about it. "If she wishes to return at home, well she can go." he said, stopping to caress her hear and turning another time to the window. "Don't act so!- Rin screamed, crying- Rin is sure you'll miss Anna-nee- chan! Why don't you stop her?! If you have had an argue, you two should ask for peace!" Sesshoumaru made a face. What did Rin know? He didn't answer. "At least.- sighed the child- At last you may ask her to return." Sesshoumaru felt a strange feeling in his chest. He didn't like to see Rin so hurt. For that, he didn't like either that Anna had decoded to go away. "Well, she could maybe return.yes." he murmured. Suddenly, Rin turned and run away. Sesshoumaru darkened. No. He would never ask her anything. That damned hardheaded female could do what she wanted, at least his life would stopped to be so complicated. Later, Anna was outside the Palace. All the servants not occupied was there to say her farewell, Rika and Misao on the head. Only Sesshoumaru and Jaken weren't there, obviously. Anna greeted everyone with a smile, in spite of her heart was so cold. When it was the time to say goodbye to Rin, the things became more hurting for her, too. She hugged the child, who was still crying, and recommended to her about smile often and act right with Misao and Rika. "He.he has said to return, nee-chan." Rin whispered to her ear. Anna looked at her with a strange expression. Rin sighed. "Sesshoumaru-sama.has said to return." Into Anna's eyes passed something Rin didn't recognize, than Anna left her go. She said farewell to everyone another time, then she noticed Sesshoumaru's presence; he was looking at her from a balcony. Her face became hard like marble, as cold as his own, then she gave him her back. He didn't want to look at his face anymore, after what he had done to her. Return? She wished only to put much distance through her and that bastard! "I was falling in love for him." she thought, with anger, before start to run away, leaving the Palace of the Lord of Western Lands. Sesshoumaru followed her with his eyes till he could, than he heard a giggle. "Finally she is gone, Sesshoumaru-sama.- giggled Jaken, satisfied- She was a nuisance. If we are lucky, we'll not see her face anymore!" Sesshoumaru hit Jaken with a so strong kick that the toad flied on the other side of the corridor. He gave a terrible glance to the little youkai, who was opened mouth, terrified. "If Anna will not return, Jaken,- Sesshoumaru said, turning- I'll kill you. Really." ** Anna passed some days reaching the forest she was when she was appeared in that world, but less than when she had traveled with the others. She run as quick as possible, without turning back. The thought of Sesshoumaru tormenting her, but she was trying to hide and suffocate it. She avoided the places they had used to fight like the plague. The picture of he hitting her, treating her like an object, tormenting her night and day. What a fool she was! She had left him hypnotize her, and then he had hurt her deeply. She had had to know that Sesshoumaru could not really.really. "Stop!" she growled, killing the thought before it could finish and running faster. She was near. Maybe two hours of run. No one had attacked her. Her angry aura had taken distant youkais and humans. The first thing she saw was the lake. She stopped on the ceiling, looking around with a dark face. There, she had met Sesshoumaru, the night she was became a youkai. She sang to the moon, crying her sadness for her impossibility to return to home, for the life she had lost. Some hours later, she had lost also her humanity. "If only I'd never meet you, you damned." she hissed, corrugating her forehead. She heard a scream. She turned, annoyed, sniffing human's smell. The village was near and two women was reaching the lake, when they had saw her. Anna looked at them with a uncaring face, passing an hand over her golden tail of hair. One of them was Haneko, that fool. "Youkai.youkai." she continued to repeat, stunned for the fear. "Humans, weakly and pathetic." Anna started to muttered, before bite her tongue. They seemed Sesshoumaru's words. The anger fill her again and Anna jumped away, passing like a light near the two women and made for the deep forest. ** Anna landed against a tree, clutching her fists and biting a lip in frustration. She had passed a night and a day searching a hole, a tear in time-space, the thing, in brief, had sent her in the Sengoku Jidai. Nothing. Not even her sense of smell had helped her. "I can't be arrived here from nowhere." she growled, fixing with anger the vegetation. It was the sunset. They were some nights she didn't sleep and the anger was consuming her energies. Then, she felt something. She turned to her left, in a defensive position. Through the trees someone lighting of silver was hide. "Who are you?" Anna asked. She couldn't sense any smell from that creature. "You can't return to your home in this way." that said, with a nice and deep voice. Anna made a face. "You know me, because you know what I'm searching.- she said, without relax a single finger- Tell me your name." The creature, whoever he was, stood in silence for some instants. "You can't return.- said to her- You are a youkai, you can't live with humans anymore. They will exclude you, or they condemn you. You are different. Don't you like enough to live here? You're not a human anymore." Anna made a glacial smile. "It's futile that you tell me.- she said, before throw herself against the creature- THINGS THAT I ALREADY KNOW!!!" Anna hit only the ground, digging a deep pit, while the creature jumped at her back, more distant. Anna turned, sure to relieve her feelings over that rash creature, but what she saw stopped her. A being, that was very similar to an inu-youkai, looked at her with a solemn and sad air, with folded arms. Silver hair combed in a tail flied at his back. His amber eyes were focused on her with a serious expression. His face showed thirty years, more or less, and had three irregular signs of a brilliant red, two over the cheeks and one in the middle of his forehead. He wore a big armour and over a shoulder there was a red tail. The most impressive thing was that Anna could see the trees behind him. "A.ghost?" she whispered, speechless. He nodded. "I'm Inuken. Am I similar to anyone?" he asked, with a little smile, noticing the inquiring look of Anna. The girl stood. Hell, that ghost seemed just like.he's very similar to Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha! He seemed a cocktail of the two. Like he had heard her, he nodded. "Yes, it's so.- he said- I'm the father of Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha. I'm the one who has carried you here. You should be a present to my son Sesshoumaru." Anna felt her legs shiver. She sat on the ground, without leaving the ghost with her eyes. "The father of.oh, Kami-sama.- she thought, distressed- And he is who has carried me here! I've the entire family against me!" "I'm sorry, I've involved you in this." the ghost started. Anna's surprise disappeared and she showed her fangs in a angry face. "You are.sorry?!- she hissed- You've kidnapped me from my world! What are your reasons?! I want to return to my own home!" "I've made it for a very precise reason.- the youkai stopped her, with a very authoritative voice- I ask to you, please, listen to me without discuss, because every minute I stand here I can't stand with my loved bride." "No one has ask you to do it." Anna said, not very politely. The ghost sighed deeply. "I'll carry you in your world again, if you'll wish it still after I'll show you what I must. I would you return to Sesshoumaru, because my heir has a big need of you." he said. Anna raised on her feet with a sarcastic face. "You'll understand many things about him and about his rash ways.- he said- Please, give me the chance to show you something." "It seems I've no choice.- she said, cynical- You all have the bad habit to put peoples with their back to the wall." "Anna. Please." the ghost said, holding out an hand. Anna darkened. "Show me what you want.- she said, coming on- But I'll not change my mind." The youkai smiled. The world span around her and suddenly Anna was in a place she knew very well. "The Palace?- Anna asked, looking around- Have you carried me here already?" She and Sesshoumaru's father were inside the second garden. "Not exactly the same Palace." the inu-youkai said. Anna heard a child's laugh and turned her eyes. She saw two child. One was a human boy, who laughed happily. The other was a youkai child with silver hair cut on his shoulders. The human boy was running, the other waited he was enough far, than reached him with a jump. The boy pretend to be frightened and run again, laughing. "He's.Sesshoumaru?" Anna asked. The inu-youkai nodded. The youkai child didn't laugh but over his face there was a little smile. Anna shook her head. She had never imagined that that 'you humans, inferior beings' had ever had a mortal friend. "I'd gave to him a companion.- the inu-youkai whispered- I was never at home. Sesshoumaru's mother was a wild youkai who died after his birth in a fight. I thought he needed a company. I made a mistake to give to him a human." "Why?" Anna asked. Suddenly, they were in a bedroom. Anna covered her nose with a face. The room was full of death's awful smell. "Because humans die." the inu-youkai murmured. Sesshoumaru was at his friend's side. The boy was dead from days. The amber eyes of the child were fixed on the decomposed face of his friend. His lips repeated: "I'm lonely.I'm lonely.I'm lonely." "Kami-sama." Anna whispered, affected. The ghost turned is eyes. "I returned only after four years. I was in China and I had completely forgot the son I had.- he said- When I returned, Sesshoumaru despised so much human's weak that he wouldn't even heard their name. If he met one of them, he killed him immediately. He wanted to prove his strength, the youkai strength that was able to defeat even the death." "Forgetting the pain." Anna said, with an empty voice. The inu-youkai nodded. "It was my fault.- he said- As what happened later." The scene changed another time. They were in front of the Big Hall's door. The door was locked. Sesshoumaru, a boy, was sit near it, the glacial typical expression over his face. "What's happening?" Anna asked. "In this day, I showed Sesshoumaru as my heir to the other members of our race.- the inu-youkai answered- They couldn't restrain their tongues." "You have the intention to leave to that weak sparrow the power?" grumbled a voice inside. "Weak sparrow." Sesshoumaru repeated, unexpressive. "I haven't other sons." the voice of the inu-youkai lord said. Anna couldn't restrain herself to gave a firing glance to the ghost near her. "Bah, he seems a milksop! It's so delicate and placid!" another said. All the persons inside laughed. "A.milksop?" Sesshoumaru said, caressing his beautiful face with one hand. He made a strange smile, than he jumped away. "He returned two hours later entering with violence in the Hall, putting on the table the stomach of ten youkais he had killed outside the castle." Inuken told. He sighed deeply. "He tried to be the hair I'd wanted. Strong, decided, cold. It was the only way to have my attention." Anna didn't speak, preferring not say her opinion. Inuken smiled weakly. "Maybe I wasn't prepared to be a father.- he said- But it's not a justification. I did many errors with him, like prefer Inuyasha to him in that way." "The son from your second bride." Anna murmured. She had ever suspected. The ghost nodded. "I loved his mother with all my heart. I'd never felt a feeling so deeply.- he said, lost in remembers- Sesshoumaru never forgave me for my choice, and for have done a child with her. If he was sure in his appointment as my heir, all was mined by that new pup. Sesshoumaru hated him immediately. I understood they had to remain at a big distance one from the other, but this done a worst effect." Around the two fell silence. "Than, I saw my death." he said. "You knew that." Anna exclaimed. Inuken nodded. "I said to Totousai to make the two swords now my sons have on their side, then I retired myself in meditation to understand what sword was right for what son.- the ghost told- I saw Inuyasha save many lives with the death's sword, and decided Tetsusaiga would be his. Then.I saw Tenseiga gave back feelings to Sesshoumaru's heart, with a child and a woman. The decision was taken." "But Sesshoumaru didn't appreciate it much." Anna said. Inuken smiled weakly. "Well, no. You know everything, from now on.- he said- I've search you through time and space, to give you the mission to give back feeling to my son's heart. It's only way I have to expiate my errors. Please, don't desert him." "I've no intention to return!- Anna growled- Sesshoumaru have had his chances to change but he have wasted them all. I'm sure he's happy, now that I'm not near him anymore!" "Oh, do you think so?" Inuken asked. He raised one hand and a vision appeared in the air. Sesshoumaru looked at her while she was going away. Jaken made a fool comment and Sesshoumaru threw him on the other side of the corridor with one kick. "If Anna will not return, Jaken, I'll kill you. Really." The vision disappeared. Inuken turned to Anna, who was in a dark silence. "Why me?" the girl asked. "Because you soul can touch his one." Inuken answered. Anna didn't replied. "Think about it till tomorrow morning.- he said, while around them was appearing again the forest- If you'll ask me again to return to your home, I'll do it for you. But, please, think about it." Anna didn't answered. Inuken greeted her with a deed and disappeared, leaving her alone. When he returned, in the morning, Anna wasn't there anymore.
CHAPTER 13 WHY I AM HERE Rin gave a glance to Anna's movements with a sad face. Her Anna-nee-chan was near to go away. The youkai girl was controlling she had not forgot anything. Rin felt a grip over his heart. She didn't know what could be the thing that was pushing Anna away from her. She didn't even believe it, when Anna, that morning, had told to her she would try to return at home. Rin, with a big smile, had asked when she was thinking to return. She knew that, like Sesshoumaru-sama, Anna could run very fast, so, wherever was Anna-nee-chan's home, she would be surely near her soon. But Anna had sighed, a sigh she didn't like very much, than she told to her of the place she came from. A place so far she didn't imagine. "If I'll be able to return, I don't think it could be easy to return in this world, Rin-chan.- Anna had said- I would bring you with me, but I don't think it's right to constrict you in a strange world like that.. Please, forgive me, but it's really time. I have to go." Rin had cried, had pried her; Anna was irremovable, but not dry and she had calm her patiently. Now she had put in a bag the essential for the trip. In a half of an hour she'd left the Palace. Rin gave a look to Misao and Rika, sit in a corner with sad faces. Why not even the adults tried to stop her?! It was so beautiful, the day before! Rin was so happy, seeing Anna-nee-chan and Sesshoumaru-sama side by side, she believed her dreams could become true! But that night something was happened. Rin could feel it inside. She didn't remember much, she knew only that Sesshoumaru-sama was in fight with that youkai with kawaii ears that was no similar to him. Anna and Kagome cried.than she had fainted. Since they were returned Anna's eyes were strange. They seemed.empty. Jaken didn't want to tell her anything, but Rin was thinking he didn't know, as she didn't, what was happened. "No-one.does no-one help Rin to stop her?" she thought, closing her eyes and clutching her fists. "Sesshoumaru-sama!" Rin raised on her feet and run outside the room. Anna followed her with her eyes. "Please, forgive me, Rin-chan." she whispered. Rin run madly through the corridors, trying to not slide, than entered into Sesshoumaru's rooms. "Sesshoumaru-sama!- she cried, seeing him in contemplation of the garden outside the window- Sesshoumaru -sama, stop Anna-nee-chan!" Sesshoumaru lowered his eyes over the upset child, who looked at him with imploring eyes. He caressed lightly her hair. Sesshoumaru knew that his words could not stop Anna. He couldn't say it to the child, it was pretty difficulty to absorb this fact in his mind for itself. He had had a single chance to ask her to remain, and he had lost it. Yeah, because he should had to ASK. Maybe, APOLOGIZE. Things inconceivable for him. So, when she had had voice to his worst thoughts, telling she had decided to go away, everything was exited from his mouth was: "Do what you want." And she was doing what she wanted, no doubt about it. "If she wishes to return at home, well she can go." he said, stopping to caress her hear and turning another time to the window. "Don't act so!- Rin screamed, crying- Rin is sure you'll miss Anna-nee- chan! Why don't you stop her?! If you have had an argue, you two should ask for peace!" Sesshoumaru made a face. What did Rin know? He didn't answer. "At least.- sighed the child- At last you may ask her to return." Sesshoumaru felt a strange feeling in his chest. He didn't like to see Rin so hurt. For that, he didn't like either that Anna had decoded to go away. "Well, she could maybe return.yes." he murmured. Suddenly, Rin turned and run away. Sesshoumaru darkened. No. He would never ask her anything. That damned hardheaded female could do what she wanted, at least his life would stopped to be so complicated. Later, Anna was outside the Palace. All the servants not occupied was there to say her farewell, Rika and Misao on the head. Only Sesshoumaru and Jaken weren't there, obviously. Anna greeted everyone with a smile, in spite of her heart was so cold. When it was the time to say goodbye to Rin, the things became more hurting for her, too. She hugged the child, who was still crying, and recommended to her about smile often and act right with Misao and Rika. "He.he has said to return, nee-chan." Rin whispered to her ear. Anna looked at her with a strange expression. Rin sighed. "Sesshoumaru-sama.has said to return." Into Anna's eyes passed something Rin didn't recognize, than Anna left her go. She said farewell to everyone another time, then she noticed Sesshoumaru's presence; he was looking at her from a balcony. Her face became hard like marble, as cold as his own, then she gave him her back. He didn't want to look at his face anymore, after what he had done to her. Return? She wished only to put much distance through her and that bastard! "I was falling in love for him." she thought, with anger, before start to run away, leaving the Palace of the Lord of Western Lands. Sesshoumaru followed her with his eyes till he could, than he heard a giggle. "Finally she is gone, Sesshoumaru-sama.- giggled Jaken, satisfied- She was a nuisance. If we are lucky, we'll not see her face anymore!" Sesshoumaru hit Jaken with a so strong kick that the toad flied on the other side of the corridor. He gave a terrible glance to the little youkai, who was opened mouth, terrified. "If Anna will not return, Jaken,- Sesshoumaru said, turning- I'll kill you. Really." ** Anna passed some days reaching the forest she was when she was appeared in that world, but less than when she had traveled with the others. She run as quick as possible, without turning back. The thought of Sesshoumaru tormenting her, but she was trying to hide and suffocate it. She avoided the places they had used to fight like the plague. The picture of he hitting her, treating her like an object, tormenting her night and day. What a fool she was! She had left him hypnotize her, and then he had hurt her deeply. She had had to know that Sesshoumaru could not really.really. "Stop!" she growled, killing the thought before it could finish and running faster. She was near. Maybe two hours of run. No one had attacked her. Her angry aura had taken distant youkais and humans. The first thing she saw was the lake. She stopped on the ceiling, looking around with a dark face. There, she had met Sesshoumaru, the night she was became a youkai. She sang to the moon, crying her sadness for her impossibility to return to home, for the life she had lost. Some hours later, she had lost also her humanity. "If only I'd never meet you, you damned." she hissed, corrugating her forehead. She heard a scream. She turned, annoyed, sniffing human's smell. The village was near and two women was reaching the lake, when they had saw her. Anna looked at them with a uncaring face, passing an hand over her golden tail of hair. One of them was Haneko, that fool. "Youkai.youkai." she continued to repeat, stunned for the fear. "Humans, weakly and pathetic." Anna started to muttered, before bite her tongue. They seemed Sesshoumaru's words. The anger fill her again and Anna jumped away, passing like a light near the two women and made for the deep forest. ** Anna landed against a tree, clutching her fists and biting a lip in frustration. She had passed a night and a day searching a hole, a tear in time-space, the thing, in brief, had sent her in the Sengoku Jidai. Nothing. Not even her sense of smell had helped her. "I can't be arrived here from nowhere." she growled, fixing with anger the vegetation. It was the sunset. They were some nights she didn't sleep and the anger was consuming her energies. Then, she felt something. She turned to her left, in a defensive position. Through the trees someone lighting of silver was hide. "Who are you?" Anna asked. She couldn't sense any smell from that creature. "You can't return to your home in this way." that said, with a nice and deep voice. Anna made a face. "You know me, because you know what I'm searching.- she said, without relax a single finger- Tell me your name." The creature, whoever he was, stood in silence for some instants. "You can't return.- said to her- You are a youkai, you can't live with humans anymore. They will exclude you, or they condemn you. You are different. Don't you like enough to live here? You're not a human anymore." Anna made a glacial smile. "It's futile that you tell me.- she said, before throw herself against the creature- THINGS THAT I ALREADY KNOW!!!" Anna hit only the ground, digging a deep pit, while the creature jumped at her back, more distant. Anna turned, sure to relieve her feelings over that rash creature, but what she saw stopped her. A being, that was very similar to an inu-youkai, looked at her with a solemn and sad air, with folded arms. Silver hair combed in a tail flied at his back. His amber eyes were focused on her with a serious expression. His face showed thirty years, more or less, and had three irregular signs of a brilliant red, two over the cheeks and one in the middle of his forehead. He wore a big armour and over a shoulder there was a red tail. The most impressive thing was that Anna could see the trees behind him. "A.ghost?" she whispered, speechless. He nodded. "I'm Inuken. Am I similar to anyone?" he asked, with a little smile, noticing the inquiring look of Anna. The girl stood. Hell, that ghost seemed just like.he's very similar to Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha! He seemed a cocktail of the two. Like he had heard her, he nodded. "Yes, it's so.- he said- I'm the father of Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha. I'm the one who has carried you here. You should be a present to my son Sesshoumaru." Anna felt her legs shiver. She sat on the ground, without leaving the ghost with her eyes. "The father of.oh, Kami-sama.- she thought, distressed- And he is who has carried me here! I've the entire family against me!" "I'm sorry, I've involved you in this." the ghost started. Anna's surprise disappeared and she showed her fangs in a angry face. "You are.sorry?!- she hissed- You've kidnapped me from my world! What are your reasons?! I want to return to my own home!" "I've made it for a very precise reason.- the youkai stopped her, with a very authoritative voice- I ask to you, please, listen to me without discuss, because every minute I stand here I can't stand with my loved bride." "No one has ask you to do it." Anna said, not very politely. The ghost sighed deeply. "I'll carry you in your world again, if you'll wish it still after I'll show you what I must. I would you return to Sesshoumaru, because my heir has a big need of you." he said. Anna raised on her feet with a sarcastic face. "You'll understand many things about him and about his rash ways.- he said- Please, give me the chance to show you something." "It seems I've no choice.- she said, cynical- You all have the bad habit to put peoples with their back to the wall." "Anna. Please." the ghost said, holding out an hand. Anna darkened. "Show me what you want.- she said, coming on- But I'll not change my mind." The youkai smiled. The world span around her and suddenly Anna was in a place she knew very well. "The Palace?- Anna asked, looking around- Have you carried me here already?" She and Sesshoumaru's father were inside the second garden. "Not exactly the same Palace." the inu-youkai said. Anna heard a child's laugh and turned her eyes. She saw two child. One was a human boy, who laughed happily. The other was a youkai child with silver hair cut on his shoulders. The human boy was running, the other waited he was enough far, than reached him with a jump. The boy pretend to be frightened and run again, laughing. "He's.Sesshoumaru?" Anna asked. The inu-youkai nodded. The youkai child didn't laugh but over his face there was a little smile. Anna shook her head. She had never imagined that that 'you humans, inferior beings' had ever had a mortal friend. "I'd gave to him a companion.- the inu-youkai whispered- I was never at home. Sesshoumaru's mother was a wild youkai who died after his birth in a fight. I thought he needed a company. I made a mistake to give to him a human." "Why?" Anna asked. Suddenly, they were in a bedroom. Anna covered her nose with a face. The room was full of death's awful smell. "Because humans die." the inu-youkai murmured. Sesshoumaru was at his friend's side. The boy was dead from days. The amber eyes of the child were fixed on the decomposed face of his friend. His lips repeated: "I'm lonely.I'm lonely.I'm lonely." "Kami-sama." Anna whispered, affected. The ghost turned is eyes. "I returned only after four years. I was in China and I had completely forgot the son I had.- he said- When I returned, Sesshoumaru despised so much human's weak that he wouldn't even heard their name. If he met one of them, he killed him immediately. He wanted to prove his strength, the youkai strength that was able to defeat even the death." "Forgetting the pain." Anna said, with an empty voice. The inu-youkai nodded. "It was my fault.- he said- As what happened later." The scene changed another time. They were in front of the Big Hall's door. The door was locked. Sesshoumaru, a boy, was sit near it, the glacial typical expression over his face. "What's happening?" Anna asked. "In this day, I showed Sesshoumaru as my heir to the other members of our race.- the inu-youkai answered- They couldn't restrain their tongues." "You have the intention to leave to that weak sparrow the power?" grumbled a voice inside. "Weak sparrow." Sesshoumaru repeated, unexpressive. "I haven't other sons." the voice of the inu-youkai lord said. Anna couldn't restrain herself to gave a firing glance to the ghost near her. "Bah, he seems a milksop! It's so delicate and placid!" another said. All the persons inside laughed. "A.milksop?" Sesshoumaru said, caressing his beautiful face with one hand. He made a strange smile, than he jumped away. "He returned two hours later entering with violence in the Hall, putting on the table the stomach of ten youkais he had killed outside the castle." Inuken told. He sighed deeply. "He tried to be the hair I'd wanted. Strong, decided, cold. It was the only way to have my attention." Anna didn't speak, preferring not say her opinion. Inuken smiled weakly. "Maybe I wasn't prepared to be a father.- he said- But it's not a justification. I did many errors with him, like prefer Inuyasha to him in that way." "The son from your second bride." Anna murmured. She had ever suspected. The ghost nodded. "I loved his mother with all my heart. I'd never felt a feeling so deeply.- he said, lost in remembers- Sesshoumaru never forgave me for my choice, and for have done a child with her. If he was sure in his appointment as my heir, all was mined by that new pup. Sesshoumaru hated him immediately. I understood they had to remain at a big distance one from the other, but this done a worst effect." Around the two fell silence. "Than, I saw my death." he said. "You knew that." Anna exclaimed. Inuken nodded. "I said to Totousai to make the two swords now my sons have on their side, then I retired myself in meditation to understand what sword was right for what son.- the ghost told- I saw Inuyasha save many lives with the death's sword, and decided Tetsusaiga would be his. Then.I saw Tenseiga gave back feelings to Sesshoumaru's heart, with a child and a woman. The decision was taken." "But Sesshoumaru didn't appreciate it much." Anna said. Inuken smiled weakly. "Well, no. You know everything, from now on.- he said- I've search you through time and space, to give you the mission to give back feeling to my son's heart. It's only way I have to expiate my errors. Please, don't desert him." "I've no intention to return!- Anna growled- Sesshoumaru have had his chances to change but he have wasted them all. I'm sure he's happy, now that I'm not near him anymore!" "Oh, do you think so?" Inuken asked. He raised one hand and a vision appeared in the air. Sesshoumaru looked at her while she was going away. Jaken made a fool comment and Sesshoumaru threw him on the other side of the corridor with one kick. "If Anna will not return, Jaken, I'll kill you. Really." The vision disappeared. Inuken turned to Anna, who was in a dark silence. "Why me?" the girl asked. "Because you soul can touch his one." Inuken answered. Anna didn't replied. "Think about it till tomorrow morning.- he said, while around them was appearing again the forest- If you'll ask me again to return to your home, I'll do it for you. But, please, think about it." Anna didn't answered. Inuken greeted her with a deed and disappeared, leaving her alone. When he returned, in the morning, Anna wasn't there anymore.